Opening 6-9pm Monday, February 14, 2011

Dispense with any heart-shaped expectations, this exhibition is not your typical celebration of love. Featuring the work of Oeur Sokuntevy (Tevy) and Nicolas C. Grey, LOVE LUST AND LOATHING explores the darker and more complex aspects of love. Negotiating ideas of love and loss, togetherness and loneliness, and the capacity of feeling to build or destroy, this exhibition provides a pause for thought amongst the traditions and romantic paraphernalia of Valentine’s Day.

Tevy presents an autobiographical series of work, which tells the story of a former relationship and her current one. Whilst she has often referenced herself in her surrealist images, these works on paper which have never previously been exhibited include literal representations of herself for the first time. Through her unerringly honest and direct style, this series evokes the raw emotion of being in a relationship and of its demise.

Nicolas C Grey’s work draws you in to his fantastically imaginative, contemplative world. Both his portraiture and wall sculptures are far from conventional comments on love, romance and attachment.  His use of portraiture, some including the use of passport photographs, are products of his deep grappling with what constitutes personal identity. They are immersed in the sinister, bleaker aspects of humanity, where love may seem to be absent, ambiguous, and associated with suffering.

LOVE, LUST and LOATHING provides a cautionary tale of romance and the fear involved of giving and receiving too much or too little both in love and in life.

For the opening, the children’s room playroom will be transformed into a fortune teller’s saloon, where a clairvoyant will be on hand to provide you with love predictions, if you dare…